Dearly beloved, let us love one another, for charity is of God. And every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God.8 He that loveth not, knoweth not God: for God is charity.9 By this hath the charity of God appeared towards us, because God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we may live by him.10 In this is charity: not as though we had loved God, but because he hath first loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.
Let us then continually persevere in our hope, and the earnest of our righteousness, which is Jesus Christ, "who bore our sins in His own body on the tree," "who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth," but endured all things for us, that we might live in Him. Let us then be imitators of His patience; and if we suffer for His name's sake, let us glorify Him. For He has set us this example in Himself, and we have believed that such is the case.
A psalm on Solomon.2 Give to the king thy judgment, O God: and to the king’s son thy justice: To judge thy people with justice, and thy poor with judgment.3 Let the mountains receive peace for the people: and the hills justice.4 He shall judge the poor of the people, and he shall save the children of the poor: and he shall humble the oppressor.7 In his days shall justice spring up, and abundance of peace, till the moon be taken sway.8 And he shall rule from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.
Further, to persuade you that you have not understood anything of the Scriptures, I will remind you of another psalm, dictated to David by the Holy Spirit, which you say refers to Solomon, who was also your king. But it refers also to our Christ. But you deceive yourselves by the ambiguous forms of speech. For where it is said, 'The law of the Lord is perfect,' you do not understand it of the law which was to be after Moses, but of the law which was given by Moses, although God declared that He would establish a new law and a new covenant. And where it has been said, 'O God, give Thy judgment to the king,' since Solomon was king, you say that the Psalm refers to him, although the words of the Psalm expressly proclaim that reference is made to the everlasting King, i.e., to Christ. For Christ is King, and Priest, and God, and Lord, and angel, and man, and captain, and stone, and a Son born, and first made subject to suffering, then returning to heaven, and again coming with glory, and He is preached as having the everlasting kingdom: so I prove from all the Scriptures.
And Jesus going out saw a great multitude: and he had compassion on them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.35 And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came to him, saying: This is a desert place, and the hour is now past:36 Send them away, that going into the next villages and towns, they may buy themselves meat to eat.37 And he answering said to them: Give you them to eat. And they said to him: Let us go and buy bread for two hundred pence, and we will give them to eat.38 And he saith to them: How many loaves have you? go and see. And when they knew, they say: Five, and two fishes.39 And he commanded them that they should make them all sit down by companies upon the green grass.†40 And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties.41 And when he had taken the five loaves, and the two fishes: looking up to heaven, he blessed, and broke the loaves, and gave to his disciples to set before them: and the two fishes he divided among them all.42 And they all did eat, and had their fill.43 And they took up the leavings, twelve full baskets of fragments, and of the fishes.†44 And they that did eat, were five thousand men.
(Vict. Ant. e Cat. in Marc. v. Chrys. Hom in Matt. 49) Now it was with fitness that He looked up to heaven, for the Jews, when receiving manna in the desert, presumed to say of God, Can he give bread? (Ps. 78:20) To prevent this therefore, before He performed the miracle, He referred to His Father what He was about to do.
About CSB. A personal translation of the New Testament, rendered directly from the public-domain Greek in a literary style — not a scholarly critical edition, and not for liturgical or doctrinal authority. It is one reader's work, offered for enjoyment; where it matters, weigh it against an established translation. (Placeholder text — final wording to come.)